The BBC's Sky At Night this week was about Venus and contained some pretty extreme CAGW alarmism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vlhgz

Apparently the reason Venus is so hot and horrid is all due to a run-away CO2 greenhouse gas effect just like wot's happening on Earth. Nothing to do with Venus being 26 million miles closer to the Sun than we are. Nothing to do with Venus having no magnetic field to protect it from the Solar Wind. Nothing to do with Venus taking 243 Earth days to rotate once, meaning one side of the planet bakes continuously. Nothing to do with Venus having 93x the atmospheric pressure of Earth.

Hugo Lambert "a climate change expert" from Exeter popped up to tell us he predicts the surface of the Earth will be "perhaps 10°C warmer than it is now by 2100". But don't worry - he tells us a Venus-like fate is still a few hundred years off in the future.

That sound you can hear in the background is Patrick Moore turning in his grave.

Patrick Moore, for whom no accolade is high enough, other than to be referred to as, “Patrick Moore”… but – turning?! He will be positively spinning! Don’t blame fracking for the tremors, it is the great scientists of the past who are also spinning at the corruption of their precious legacy.

His replacement in that illustrious programme is but a poor imitation – whatever happened to Heather Couper? Surely a more suitable person to take on Patrick Moore’s mantle, is she not?

The climate kooks seem to regularly revisit promising sources of climate fear like nomads grazing land or Vikings raiding a nice vulnerable coastal village. That basically every source of cliamte fear turns out to be based on misrepresentation, distortion or outright falsehood makes no difference,That Venus is still used not only as a comparison but a fearful prophecy for Earth would be astonishing if it was the only false idea the climate apocalypse promoters used. Instead misrepresenting Venus is only one of a long list of false ideas the climate kooks regularly revisit.